Error building ghc on raspberry pi.

[Thijs Alkemade]

(Sorry, forgot to CC the list)


-------- Original Message --------
From: Thijs Alkemade <me at thijsalkema.de>
Sent: Thu Jan 03 10:31:50 CET 2013
To: roconnor at theorem.ca
Subject: Re: Error building ghc on raspberry pi.

roconnor at theorem.ca wrote:

>Some further information it seems that llc is segfaulting:
>
>pi at raspberrypi /tmp/ghc-7.4.1 $ llc -O3 -relocation-model=static
>/tmp/ghc7189_0/ghc7189_0.bc -o /tmp/ghc7189_0/ghc7189_0.lm_s 
>Stack dump:
>0.      Program arguments: llc -O3 -relocation-model=static
>/tmp/ghc7189_0/ghc7189_0.bc -o /tmp/ghc7189_0/ghc7189_0.lm_s 
>1.      Running pass 'Function Pass Manager' on module
>'/tmp/ghc7189_0/ghc7189_0.bc'.
>2.      Running pass 'ARM Instruction Selection' on function
>'@ghczmprim_GHCziTypes_Czh_info'
>Segmentation fault
>pi at raspberrypi /tmp/ghc-7.4.1 $ llc --version
>Low Level Virtual Machine (http://llvm.org/):
>   llvm version 3.0
>    (Debian 3.0-10)Optimized build.
>   Built Jul 26 2012 (20:20:52).
>   Host: arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
>   Host CPU: (unknown)
>
>   Registered Targets:
>     alpha    - Alpha [experimental]
>     arm      - ARM
>     bfin     - Analog Devices Blackfin [experimental]
>     c        - C backend
>     cellspu  - STI CBEA Cell SPU [experimental]
>     cpp      - C++ backend
>     mblaze   - MBlaze
>     mips     - Mips
>     mips64   - Mips64 [experimental]
>     mips64el - Mips64el [experimental]
>     mipsel   - Mipsel
>     msp430   - MSP430 [experimental]
>     ppc32    - PowerPC 32
>     ppc64    - PowerPC 64
>     ptx32    - PTX (32-bit) [Experimental]
>     ptx64    - PTX (64-bit) [Experimental]
>     sparc    - Sparc
>     sparcv9  - Sparc V9
>     systemz  - SystemZ
>     thumb    - Thumb
>     x86      - 32-bit X86: Pentium-Pro and above
>     x86-64   - 64-bit X86: EM64T and AMD64
>     xcore    - XCore
>
>On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, roconnor at theorem.ca wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to build ghc-7.4.1 using ghc-7.4.1 on my raspberry pi
>(armv6l) and 
>> I get the following error:
>>
>> "inplace/bin/ghc-stage1"   -H32m -O    -package-name ghc-prim-0.2.0.0
>
>> -hide-all-packages -i -ilibraries/ghc-prim/. 
>> -ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build 
>> -ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/autogen 
>> -Ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build 
>> -Ilibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/autogen
>-Ilibraries/ghc-prim/. 
>> -optP-include 
>> -optPlibraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/autogen/cabal_macros.h
>-package 
>> rts-1.0  -package-name ghc-prim -XHaskell98 -XCPP -XMagicHash 
>> -XForeignFunctionInterface -XUnliftedFFITypes -XUnboxedTuples 
>> -XEmptyDataDecls -XNoImplicitPrelude -O2  -no-user-package-conf
>-rtsopts 
>> -odir libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -hidir 
>> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -stubdir 
>> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build -hisuf hi -osuf  o -hcsuf hc -c
>
>> libraries/ghc-prim/./GHC/Types.hs -o 
>> libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types.o
>> Stack dump:
>> 0.      Program arguments: llc -O3 -relocation-model=static 
>> /tmp/ghc6324_0/ghc6324_0.bc -o /tmp/ghc6324_0/ghc6324_0.lm_s 1.     
>Running 
>> pass 'Function Pass Manager' on module '/tmp/ghc6324_0/ghc6324_0.bc'.
>> 2.      Running pass 'ARM Instruction Selection' on function 
>> '@ghczmprim_GHCziTypes_Czh_info'
>> /tmp/ghc6324_0/ghc6324_0.lm_s: openBinaryFile: does not exist (No
>such file 
>> or directory)
>> make[1]: *** [libraries/ghc-prim/dist-install/build/GHC/Types.o]
>Error 1
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> Anyone have any thoughts on what might be the matter and what I can
>do to fix 
>> it.  (If only openBinaryFile said which file doesn't exist.)
>>
>>

I believe I had the same problem, which disappeared after upgrading llvm from 3.0 to 3.1, and using that instead for ./configure.

Hope this helps,
Thijs